Martin Eden Vocabulary

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Martin Eden Vocabulary List

Lambent – flickering; His emotions leapt and played like lambent flameEthereal – heavenly; She was a pale, ethereal creaturePlethora – excess; All this plethora of sight, feeling, and thought occurred on the instantDepreciate – belittle; He waved his hand deprecatingly and muttered that it was nothing at allSimpering – smiling in a silly manner; He saw the simpering, boisterous girls from south of MarketPalpitant– trembling, throbbing; Through the swaying, palpitant vision, he stared at the real womanIndelicate– improper; Swinburne fails because he is indelicateSurreptitious – stealthy; He had to glance surreptitiously about and learn how to accomplish each new thingAesthetic – artistic; -He was feasting his love of beauty at this table where eating was an aesthetic functionTrepidation – fear; He essayed it with trepidationApparent – clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgmentAnarchist – an advocate of the abolition of governmentsTension – feelings of hostility that are not